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obsolete or old-fashioned
- On the other, the dusky old House of the Seven Gables, with the antiquated shop-window under its projecting story, and Hepzibah herself, in a gown of rusty black silk, behind the counter, scowling at the world as it went by!Chapter 3 — The First Customer (50% in)
- In this extremity, the antiquated virgin turned to Phoebe.Chapter 9 — Clifford and Phoebe (27% in)
- Chanticleer himself, though stalking on two stilt-like legs, with the dignity of interminable descent in all his gestures, was hardly bigger than an ordinary partridge; his two wives were about the size of quails; and as for the one chicken, it looked small enough to be still in the egg, and, at the same time, sufficiently old, withered, wizened, and experienced, to have been founder of the antiquated race.Chapter 10 — The Pyncheon Garden (49% in)
- "Undoubtedly," said the daguerreotypist, "I do feel an interest in this antiquated, poverty-stricken old maiden lady, and this degraded and shattered gentleman,—this abortive lover of the beautiful.Chapter 14 — Phoebe's Good-Bye (50% in)
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